Heathrow Airport is CLOSED: Travellers warned do NOT come to Terminals with chaos expected for days..

Heathrow is one of the world’s busiest airports for international travel. It had its busiest January on record earlier this year, with more than 6.3 million passengers, up more than 5 per cent for the same period last year, Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at around 11.30pm on Thursday and the busy airport, which sees a plane land or take off every 45 seconds on average, announced its closure at 2am on Friday…

Police have declared a major incident in Hayes after an electrical substation exploded in the early hours of Friday morning, igniting a large-scale fire at a new building construction site on Nestles Avenue, The London Fire Brigade said in a statement that crews would remain at the scene of the fire 1.5miles north of Heathrow Airport throughout the night, Firefighters have advised local residents to keep their windows and doors closed to stop the ‘significant’ amount of smoke entering their homes.

More than 200,000 people travel through the airport every day and the chaos expected from the closure is set to have drawn out effects over the weekend, Firefighters are working ‘tirelessly’ to bring the blaze under control – with part of a transformer at the substation still alight, the London Fire Brigade has said, A Heathrow Airport spokesperson said: ‘Heathrow is experiencing a significant power outage across the airport due to a large fire at a nearby electrical substation.

Flights set to land at Heathrow are already being diverted, with Flightradar24 saying it would affect at least 1,351 flight to and from Heathrow, ‘That doesn’t include any flights that might be canceled or delayed due to aircraft being out of position,’ the flight tracker site said in a statement, That means as many as 145,000 travelers could be affected by the closure, according to aviation-data firm Cirium.